Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-07-08
WOOD RIVER, IDAHO.

"VVO AAv 60D AOAnVs
A Region Where Mines that Have Pail
fren the Start Still Yield the Best
OF Smelling Ores-The 9old Belt and
Smoky.
". P. Blake in Engineering and Mining Journal
w. P. Blake, q relative Of the in.
ventor of the Blake crusher and 9
mining expert who stands deservedly
high in the estimation of investors
visited Wood River recently, and re-
NAMED about 10 days. During Bit
stay he could not, Of course, visit al
or even any considerable number o.
our many promising properties; but
he nevertheless managed to secure
much reliable information, - can b<
seen from the following article writ
ten at Haley the 18th of last month
The Wood River country at thi.
season is seen at its best. The higi
mountains on each side of the valley
though treeless, are covered with the
greenest of herbage and are Aeckec
with . profusion Of brilliant flo wers
Herds Of cattle from the plains o.
Snake River are now climbing the
hills, and, following the refreshing
snow, revel in pastures new.
The prospect underground is per
haps quite as cheering 10 the heart o.
the true miner. Here, if any where
we 6ud mines that have paid from
the start, and that still continue te
produce the best of smelling ores
The excitement of the first discov
cries OF great masses of lead ore hal
given place to systematic mining.
At Bellevue the two chief proper
ties now worked are the Minnie
Moore and the Queen of the Hills
Tho Minnie, which q few years ago
was sold 70 soue English gentlemen
for about half a million Of dollars
has paid for itself by ores shipped
and stands to-day in the front ranl
of lead-silver mines of the country
1t has been opened to q depth of 7O(
feet on the incline, and is equipped
with hosting works and a full con
centration plant. The output in De
cember last was nearly 1000 tons o
one hundred-dollar ore, aud its ship
ments now reach about 20 tons a day
or 600 tons of such ore q mouth. Ii
one of the slopes the vein, or bed, i,
IL feet thick Of brown spar, will
layers of galenite and argentiferou.
gray copper ore. The formation i.
limestone, with shales as black ant
lustrous as anthracite. BY the cour
tesy of J. M. Kinnear, Superintend
ent, was permitted to go through
the Slopes aad compare the present
condition of the mine with its ap
pearanee five years ago. The Queer
of the Hills, another extensive silver
lead mine, is not over q quarter of .
mile from the Minnie, and IL opened
to a depth of $50 feet below the crop
pings. 1t is we'll equipped, Also, will
hosting and concentrating plant
with a capacity of 80 tons a day. Il
usually ships about ono car load o.
ore and concentrates daily, but owing
to the carrying away of the bridge b.
the swollen Wood River, shipments
have been suspended, and some 2O(
tons are now upon the dumps. Thi,
mine has produced over a million O
dollars worth of ore and is scarcel,
opened. It is under the able super
intendence of Captain Lusk.
Most of the ores are shipped t
California or Omaha, bat for man,
mines, especially those Of the uppe
parts of the valley, the sueltin,
works of the Philadelphia Company
at Ketohum, are the best market
This company, after q period of trib
ulation, has been reorganised. aad i
now doing . large custom smelling
business. The silver-iead bars ar,
shipped to Omaha for separation.
The concentrates Of the silver-lea'
ores OF these two mines, aad of other
in the region, is q great success, an
is effected chiefly by jigs, with shAl
ing tables and Frue conceNtrators 70
the fines and shines. The best or
from the Minnie Moore will run abou
lis ounces of silver, and 60 to 2
per cent. Of lead.
BULLION DISTRICT.
I The celebrated Msyaower mini
and the Bullion adjoining, are no,
leased out and arc not at preser
heavy producers. The Bullion hs
furnished perhaps the highest grad
Of lead ore Of the region, carryin
200 ounces or more of silver. Tn
Idxhoan, another leading mine, is sti
producing largely and pro6tably.
4 Tn th;s pulEoo District tha claiv